Poor Optimization, Bugs, Broken Economy
The game runs like crap no matter what your hardware is, and using a grame generation program like dlss just causes a noticible amount of input lag for your mouse and isn't a real solution. I will say so far I haven't had any crashes yet though I probably am jinxing myself by saying that. The game is buggy, not quite a bethesda release buggy but still not great, but bugs are fixable with time. The ingame economy right now is insane, early on you get 300-1000 credits for selling a weapon because you sell everything for 10% of its value and in order to repair armor at 80% it costs 10-20k credits, missions give 600-1000 credits. (I altered the economy with some mods to make it less harsh, but that is only a bandaid solution.) The English voice acting is just awful, not because they are bad, they are but I don't care about that, but because of the wide range of accents of voice actors. Hard to believe I'm in the chernobyl zone when 1/3rd of the people have an english accent and 1/3rd are american. Another issue is the game lost a lot of the charm the old games had. This game has too many "cinematic slop" cutscenes during narrative parts of the game. Not a fan of that.
All in all if they can fix the performance issues, balance the economy better, and fix the bugs I give it a 3.5/5. It's a fun game but definitely not a 9/10 like some people claim it is.
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